Chittenden County, Vermont City of Burlington, 28 Nov 2022

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00:00:00 Agenda
00:00:50 Public Forum
00:01:19 Consent Agenda
00:03:09 Grant Notes for Costs of Airport Improvements
00:06:40 Two Grant Amendments for CJC
00:08:21 Utility Easement for BETA Technologies
00:11:03 Liquid Deicer Unit Purchase - Fortbrand Services
00:13:39 Stormwater Dredging and Veg Removal - Courtland Construction
00:15:37 Budget Neutral Amendment to FY23 Airport Budget

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And call them meaning.

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And the first item on the agenda agenda and I would welcome a motion to adoption. Unfortunately, thank you, president Paul, give me a second by councilman D. Thank you. um You're hearing us okay sounds like good. uh Is there um any discussion of motion seeing none will go to a vote. All those Affair in motion, please say aye all right, opposed motion carries unanimously.

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We have an agenda, hello, everyone hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving uh thanks for coming together. Here looks like you're a pretty manageable agenda. Hopefully we can get to do it relatively quickly. um We will next go to public forum. I do not see anyone in person for the public forum. You know a couple of attendees online. If you would like to be recognized, uh please use the raised hand function.

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If you're looking to be recognized for the public forum, it's going once going twice, not seeing any hands so we'll close the public forum and to the incentives item and um the consent agenda which says item. That's what I was complaining there 3.01 and 3.02 already minutes of November meetings. Can we have a motion regarding the consent agent.

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uh So if somebody else wants to make a motion uh mayor, that's fine I wasn't here on November 14th, so I feel like I should not be voting on that I assume were counselors, McGee and Hightower. I can't remember, they were believed. So, yes,.

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Mind breaking it up. I would make a motion to.

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I, would you want to make the November first promotion.

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Yeah I would make a motion to approve a few minutes on November 1st.

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Greatest or second second, by councilor Hightower any discussion on the item. 3.01 we're breaking up the consent agenda here, any discussions on 3.01 seeing none will go to a boat. All those in favor of the motion, please say: aye all.

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Right opposed by motion carries unanimously, and now can we have a separate motion from professors. The gear high tower on 3.02.

D

I'll move to great I'll move to.

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Approve the minutes.

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um Of November 14th, as listed on board Docs.

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From counselor here, great.

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Excellent, um and so so just the three of us I believe are voting on on that any further discussion, seeing none all those Affairs of the motion, please say: hi all.

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Any opposed that carries 3-0 with one that says: okay, um moving to item uh 4.01, the we have three items: sorry, four items for approval and recommendation to the city council 4.01 is the issuance of a grant anticipation.

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For the cost of certain airport Improvement projects.

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You expect this or richer.

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I will just quickly say uh this is uh to approve a grant anticipation, note and an amount up to 10 million dollars.

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um It is exactly the same as uh an approval we've received last year um and just reflects the fact that um the airport, much to our.

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um Is the recipient of several FAA grants, um but we do need um this instrument to ensure that we have the cash flow available. All the costs are built into those grants, so this is really just sort of standard operating procedure. But of course any of us stand by to answer questions.

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uh So I'll recommend that.

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Just simply that people understand that even the interest occurred on the Gan borrow one is 100 reimbursable, so it's really about as close as you can get to everything. Yes like it is everything and that's right that is right. Okay, yes, so, yes, I will make a motion to approve the um uh to recommend that the council approve the attention.

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Second, second, from.

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um I'll just said it wasn't always standard operating procedure. It was a good innovation of the last decade of my memory that we've been doing it this way and um but it's been a good iteration.

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um Any further discussion questions no.

C

I I would just ask if there's a way to know um and I could read all of the fine print. I. Probably didn't read everything um as far as the number of things where it covers many projects, including Runway, taxiway, terminal apron, noise mitigation. Etc would.

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Have any idea what the percentage of it is that conclude, that is part of the noise mitigation measures for residences and residential assignment installation or updating the noise exposure map in percentage terms. Does anyone have any idea, and if you don't that's fine, I, wouldn't have the percentage right off the bat I think it's a the 10 million dollars is just used to draw down when two, it's very rare, that we would use it for the noise program. In fact, I don't think we'd have in the last many years.

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These are for the big big construction costs in just in case.

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It is eligible, though, like.

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To right, okay,.

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Okay to know through their hands we're going to vote others in favor of the motion, please say: aye aye all right opposed motion carries unanimously.

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um This brings us to 4.0 2, which are two brand amendments or the County Justice Center um Rachel. You want to see this stuff sure.

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These are two amendments that have come to towards grants that are already been approved by the board, finance and city council, one for the Department of Corrections one for the from the ago the agos was made to make up was um portions of money was distributed to Diversion agency throughout the state to make up for lost fee Revenue, since our programs rely on fees, could cover the budget, and since the pandemic has started, no agency is meeting their budgeted fee allotments, so the NGO added thirty thousand dollars to our grant and then for the doc from Justice reinvestment act monies.

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They are Distributing 5 000 per CJC around the state for Dei related initiatives. This is just a um a motion to accept additional money for Approved grants.

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Very good, thank you for that Rachel. um Are we ready for a motion I'm happy to make a motion, as recommended on board Docs great? Thank you. Councilman Gates secretary from president Paul, uh further discussion. It's seeing them will go to a vote. All those in favor of the motion. Please say: aye.

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Post, oh, she carries unanimously.

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um 4.03 utility instrument with Green Mountain Power for Beta, Technologies um uh I. Think it's a fairly straightforward item. You'll still be here. If necessary, uh Floors open for a motion, questions.

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I would love just an explanation, um even though, despite the straightforward comment, um there's just not like a whole lot of detail on what's going on and why in the memo so.

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Certainly so this is a utility easement with blue mountain power to allow them to install some underground cabling, which they will need access to their after installation for routine maintenance, and it is just a corner of our property. It does affect two others that GMP is working with them individually on and it does feed the new data facility.

D

And when we're talking about clearing, because I think we said I like I, guess how much land is being like what is the volume of land that's being cleared or soil? That's being moved.

H

So with the soil and the sod will be lifted, the underground utility will be installed and then it will be replaced over top of it, and it's a small Corner um yeah a couple thousand square feet.

D

Great. Thank you.

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Any further questions.

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Thank you, president Paul. It's our second time. Thank you. uh Further discussion.

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Great um we'll go I'll just say before we go to vote I'm, uh exciting, to see more steps towards the opening of it that facility and uh what we expect to be very impactful addition to the uh to what's happening at the airport. So with that, we will go to vote all those they're emotionally say: aye any opposed what she.

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Thank you. Thank you. um Let's see, 4.04 uh final item of this section of the agenda liquid, the icer you're, going to purchase from fourth round services.

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This is so I'm sorry I made it so materials I missed it, but it's a 68 000 item. This is.

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Going to ask that as well I, don't think it does it. It's.

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Not a multi-year.

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Think that is just a mistake.

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That's the case, then, actually, it's possible that the recommended action is completely correct. I think that it's just in the wrong place, that is.

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If I make a motion that we approve and authorize the purchase, that's great uh from uh for Grant services for the liquid dicing about 68 000 colors.

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The motion is there.

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A second second second one Council Hightower um uh to add I, think to nope.

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This is going to be a real benefit uh for us because it works in conjunction with the solid DX we put down and that's it's actually going to increase the uh the effectiveness of the salt of the ice that will be currently used, and it's uh reduces the amount of time that it takes for the action to keep it almost open. So it's a huge Amendment for us, so something that I do want to point out, though it's not 50 inch booms, it's actually 15 foot.

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Thank you for that clarification. um Any any discussion.

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See now we'll go to vote all those in favor of emotions, please say aye I already opposed motion carries unanimously.

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Thank you. Thank you. um Two more rights, uh 5.01 authorization to execute an amended contract for stormwater dredging and vegetation and Rural Services Portland construction corporations, DPW water resources and um um Chief NIU. Representing on this one great thanks. Do you want to see that very further.

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So I can go first um yeah. We we bid out a project with 100 cubic yards for comparing the bids, so we found the lowest bidder when we went to board of Finance. Previously we didn't increase that 100 cubic yards to the actual amount of cubic yards that we anticipate for this project. So this um that's the main cost. So that's a fourteen thousand five hundred four dollar increase um and there's a couple smaller items on there, so we've itemized those out, and so we have a total eighteen thousand.

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Four hundred sixty nine uh dollar requests to increase for their contract.

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We have uh questions or questions.

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Great, thank you, president Paul. Is there a second discussion.

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All those in favor of the motion, please say aye.

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Are there any opposed the most cares unanimously and thank you both thank you. uh This brings us to the final Action level Nate the request for approvalented 86 575 budget Mutual Amendment for the FY 23 Airport Budget Montgomery.

F

So this budget amendment is sort of a standard protocol. We come to you during the year, as we have things that we find.

F

We need to increase or decrease certain account items, and that is what we're doing here, um try to explain why we're doing it and- and we were able to shift things around from savings, we've had and other accounts or don't expect to have in other houses, get some safe into a real estate taxes that we had over uh estimated because we are always working with an estimated rate as well as we did not um have to use our Revenue anticipation. Note and we're not really met this year.

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So I was able to to use those funds and react like hate them to where we needed them.

C

um Thank you. So uh when it comes to real estate taxes, that's fifteen thousand dollars. That's a small small is a small amount. How.

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Much was the it was an.

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Estimate obviously have an asset, uh uh the actual bills, lower than budgeted were they a lot lower than budgeted.

F

They weren't at a Time lower than budget we're pretty close, because it's about eight hundred thousand dollars that we pay in taxes. So it's a fairly small amount that I I've always tried to go. We don't have enough in. There are pretty close to it.

C

I mean it's fifteen thousand five. Seventy five is the vast majority of it. Yes, okay.

C

um And as well on the death surface, you didn't you would just budget.

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You're not using.

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Using it is that what you.

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Had in the budget, yes, that was kind of if we had needed to borrow under Revenue anticipation. Now that was the line item and we're not doing it well.

C

um All right, um unless others want to uh which made the motion is.

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Thank you, president Paul. We have a motion. uh Do we have a second? Second? Thank you counselor. Any further discussion, questions.

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Okay, so now we're going to vote all those Affair in motion, please say: aye.

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Are there any opposed great the.

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Motion carries unanimously thank.

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You Murray thank you team airport and um with that we have concluded all the business on the agenda. So if there is no objection, I don't want to adjourn the board of Finance at 5. 24 pm see.

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